A Quest for Well-Being

It is possible to genuinely love the body you are in! It is possible to stop the insanity of yo-yo dieting and overeating! It is possible to feel normal again in regards to eating and thinking about food! Lemuela believes that we don't need to be told how to eat or how to exercise in order to feel good in our bodies. She believes that the key to a healthy body and feeling good inside of it begins within us being taught how to communicate with our bodies in a loving and kind way. Lemuela brings her readers to a new level of awareness about their mind, body, and spirit connection. She teaches her readers how to get in touch with their own knowing and gives them the simple tools for natural weight loss. Are you ready to connect with your own truth? What would your life be like if you loved your body? As a coach, Lemuela Christina guides her clients through specific steps to change the way they think about food and their body. It is not the food or our bodies that are the problem. It is the way we think about them. In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Lemuela Christina Duskis, the author of Your Body Relationship: Overcoming Weight Obsession. Lemuela Christina is a fourth-grade teacher and the author of Your Body Relationship and Your Know Your Teacher When… When she is not in the classroom, she works with individuals to empower them to end the cycle of yo-yo dieting and return to a normal healthy lifestyle through one on one coaching. Lemuela has a BS in Psychology and Master's in Cross-Cultural Education. Her passions include her family, friends, health, traveling the world, and mastering her second language of Italian. To learn more about Lemuela Christina Duskis please visit her website: http://www.lemuelachristina.com For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

Could you use some good parenting advice and tips? Are you struggling with pain, shame, and anger leftover from your childhood wounds? There are many books on recovering from the trauma of child abuse but not many that focus on the job of parenting afterward. Geanne Meta is the author of Parenting Well After Childhood Abuse. A groundbreaking, self-help book that reinforces the importance of healing the damage to be the best parent you can be. While the subject might be challenging, Geanne uses humor throughout the book. Especially in the parenting scenarios. She offers useful tips whether you came from abuse or not. Parenting is hard. It's even more challenging when you had a crappy childhood. Of course, you don't want to do what was done to you but it's easier said than done. While there's no quick fix, Geanne's work gives encouragement to seek help and a roadmap of steps to take. Her story sets an example of transcending the harm done in childhood to reach a life full of hope and healing. In this episode, she talks about healing ourselves and the journey to become whole. Geanne lived with the pain of childhood sexual abuse but didn't seek help until she became a parent. She went from small victim to resilient survivor by working on the root causes of her shame, denial, pain, and anger. Valeria interviews Geanne Meta who besides being an author, she is a proud mom, sister, wife, grandmom, friend, animal rescuer, pretty good cook - and also, a childhood sexual abuse survivor who isn't afraid to talk about it. She has a passion to share her story in hopes of helping the multitude of others who suffer in silence. To learn more about Geanne Meta please visit her website: https://www.geannemeta.com/ For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

"No matter how long we emphasize the need for real peace to all beings, there are still many individuals who don't accept our peace. If people don't accept our peace, where can it be found? Peace has to be found in us. We have to digest, we have to chew real peace in our hearts by ourselves. It is pretty hard. The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination, and differences so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred and war. We are always trying to fix the surface or object-discriminated aspect of the human world. In this aspect of the world there are countless holes through which ideas are leaking- the idea of nuclear weapons, the idea of peace or no-peace, the idea of armament or disarmament. But if we want to fix some aspect of the world, if we want to have a peace movement, it is necessary to remember that armament and disarmament are the same thing in a sense; they are a principle or doctrine created by human ignorance. If we attach to the idea of disarmament we create a problem. On the other hand, if we attach to the idea of armament we create still more problems. So why don't we see the idea of peace as just an idea that can be used temporarily in order to approach real peace. There is no other way to approach peace. To approach real peace requires a very strong, stable, spiritual commitment, a vow. Just take a vow. Make a commitment toward real peace, just like Buddha sitting under the dead tree. But remember, even though we do make a commitment toward real peace, there will be many individuals who don't accept our way. So finally, where can real peace be found? With us. We ourselves must remain with peace. This is pretty hard, but we cannot stop. Buddha has to continue to sit under the dead tree. This is our sitting. The more we sit like this, the more we realize the strength of human ignorance. There is no reason why we create this terrible situation, but we do, constantly. When we make a spiritual commitment toward real peace, day by day, we have to go beyond whether people accept peace or not. This is not a political matter. It is a spiritual commitment toward peace. We have to taste it and digest it, constantly. Next we have to live it. This is pretty hard, because the more we taste and chew real peace, the more we realize human ignorance. But the more we realize human ignorance, the more we cannot stop teaching real peace, living real peace. – writes: Dainin Katagiri Valeria interviews Josh Sandeman on the topic of peace from the book: Zen Practice in Daily Life by Dainin Katagiri - Sōtō Zen roshi Josh is a Family Nurse Practitioner working in an underserved population in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 with a degree in American Civilization and Psychology. He then worked as a programmer/analyst and research assistant in Penn's Addiction Treatment Research Center for five years before enrolling in a doctoral program in theoretical neuroscience. For ten years, Josh also worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer, before switching to medicine, a childhood interest of mine. He is married with two young sons, and an avid long-distance runner, and do science as a hobby. To learn more about Josh Sandeman please visit his linkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-sandeman For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

Valeria Teles interviews Jason Reynolds. Jason invites us to move beyond the philosophical chatter into deliberate action. Jason facilitates powerful, Organizational Architecture and the development of a Personal Governance required for long term success. He is passionate about the everyday hero and in particular the next generation, yet his career spans across progressive multi-nationals, successful entrepreneurs and elite performers upon various stages. His work is focused upon the individual becoming their authority, establishing their state of Personal Governance required to explore sovereignty. He speaks deliberately and profoundly into embracing the chaos we create, providing a proven navigation to embrace the unknown within all of us. He is not focused on changing the world but having individuals change theirs, inspiring others to do the same by the example they provide. His teaching is confronting and unconventional, but inconveniently simple. He asks you to see the obvious and take action into life by activating an undeniable, yet powerful frequency signature. Jason's work with The Quantum Movement may just reestablish what we know about self-healing as clients consistently move beyond terminal diagnosis. Going against the common approach, Jason maintains a low profile. He has not sought followers or growing a community, instead setting people free to follow an unencumbered pathway within. After 20+ years, Jason is now in process of exposing and launching his life's work. To learn more about Jason Reynolds please email him at: jason@thequantummovement.com For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

It is up to us to know the wisdom within us, for this is something no one else can teach us. We must be our own guiding light. There is no competition with another. Any thoughts of competition come from the false self, and this belief lives in a place that holds the belief that you are not enough. If you are the belief that you are not enough, then you look at others and believe they are more than you, doing it better than you, more gifted and more talented. This leads to competition with them, but that competition is one in which you are against yourself. You see, there is nothing and no one better than you, and that is because there is only one you — one you with the very unique and special gifts that you came here to share. Be in abundance. There is more than enough for everyone. Everyone has the potential to tap into the abundance. When you do not feel worthy, you will fill your internal holes with external fillers, and doing so dulls your light. Some do this through the use of alcohol, drugs, food, TV, or social media, and in doing so, they become numb to their own truth. There is a false belief that touching your truth will be painful, and you hold this belief because you do not know the true self within. The true self lives inside your heart. This one is the truth of the who that you are. This one is protected from pain by limiting beliefs, and therefore, cannot easily be touched. All of your gifts wait for you to be ready to awaken, evolve, and become. Ready to begin to live, value, and cherish yourself. The true self inside of you is a beacon of light, much like a rudder designed to hold you steady in a storm. But, you must step up and become the captain of your ship. It is up to the you in the now to get back into the driver's seat of your life. To not be afraid of the pain--the pain of going through healing is not worse than the trauma you have already survived. Be the light that you are. Come on a journey of exploration and self-care, and let's find the hid- den treasures that are you, that reside within you. Let's awaken to your true potential and calling. – says Janet Philbin In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Janet, the author of Show Up for Yourself: A Guide To Inner Growth And Awareness. Janet Philbin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience. Janet is a Certified Conscious Parenting Coach. Certified by Dr. Shefali Tsabary's Conscious Parenting Coaching Method Institute. Janet is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Master An-Ra Energy Healer, Certified Intuitive Counselor, and a Hypnosynergistic practitioner. Janet is an author with her first book, Show Up For Yourself, due out April 14,2020. Janet's unique eclectic style combines her years of clinical counseling, parent coaching, hypnosis, spirituality and energy work. Janet has a successful private practice providing psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. Her passion is helping people heal from the inside out. She is an expert in helping her clients uncover and heal the issues of the inner child which are influencing their adult life and parenting in the present. Janet received her BS in Gerontology from Springfield College and her MSW from New York University. Janet is also a proud mom to three children. To learn more about Janet Philbin please visit her website: https://hypnosisforhope.com/ For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

Who are the caregivers? We all are, for at the heart of being human is the capacity to care, to reach out to others and explore the relationships we build. Valeria interviews Edward Smink, the author of "The Soul of Caregiving". The book is about us and how we, as caregivers, serve, even sacrifice, for those in need. Dr. Edward invites you to explore with him how we have the opportunities to partake in a kind of pilgrimage along the path of our experiences as caregivers. Who will be your guide on this journey? Unlike other pilgrims who have a guide assigned to them, you will soon discover it is your own Soul guiding you. Professionally skilled as we may be to meet the needs of others, a fundamental core component of our busy lives as caregivers, is the necessity to stop and rest. It is not a waste of time, but rather a luxury of time, to ponder, reflect, and grow from our experiences. Not an easy endeavor in the midst of a whirlwind of activity. We, as caregivers, experience vulnerability, helplessness, fears, and pain over the traumatic events we experience because we care. We care about those whom we are called to serve. There is so much wisdom in Edward works. He calls the tension between activity and reflection, "the Dance of Caregiving," a dance between the caregiver's needs and those of the one in need and says that there is within each of us a space that seeks wholeness and transformation, an area of woundedness which often shows its face in the midst of our caregiving. In a unique and profound way, those who serve are transformed in the healing relationship that is created with those in need. We are wounded healers. Edward also explores compassion fatigue and its two sisters, secondary traumatic stress and burnout. He says that we experience compassion fatigue because we care. Edward has over forty years' experience in healthcare as nurse, crisis and pastoral counselor, executive leader, facilitator of mission, ethics, value and leadership formation. His career has the foundation of his many years in different leadership positions where his skills of active listening, the promotion of ethical and professional guidelines, crisis intervention, facilitation of personal and professional goals, growth strategies, and sensitivity for and the promotion of cultural and spiritual diversity. Edward likes to claim that along with his academic credentials, he has learned most from his experience with colleagues who care for others and from those who needed his services. He has coached individuals, leadership teams, directors, healthcare professionals, and executive leaders. He is a successful author, and an accomplished speaker. To learn more about Edward Smink please visit his website: https://soulofcaregiving.com For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

We are all part of one mind, a great energy gestalt, and we are connected at the level of the collective unconsciousness. Each individual aspect of the gestalt has its own electrical system, its own vibration rate, and interacts with all other aspects. Thus, we are all connected to one another and to a central point. On a higher self or psychic level, it is possible for anyone to tune in to anyone else and to draw upon the entire gestalt. Humankind takes advancing steps when group consciousness reaches critical mass and new awareness is accepted by the whole. Everything begins as a thought or idea. Ideas and experiences create beliefs that in turn, create your reality. If you are unhappy with your current reality, you must change your beliefs and your behavior. Beliefs can be changed when you recognize which ones are not working for you. Change that belief, and your life will change. With respect to changing your behavior, you must decide the disharmonious behavior you need to eliminate. Then realize you don't have to change how you feel about it, you simply have to change what you are doing. The Buddha knew what he was talking about when he said, "Your resistance to what is causes your suffering." I do not think Earth is our home. After forty years of study and having re- searched and written more than a dozen books on related subjects, it is clear to me Spirit is our true home, and we each are here on Earth on a journey that had a beginning and will have an end. Regardless of your religious beliefs or lack thereof, you came from Spirit, and you will return to Spirit. – Says: Stephen Hawley Martin In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Stephen. Bestselling author Stephen Hawley Martin has had a more than half dozen titles achieve bestseller status on Amazon.com and is the only three-time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction. He also has won a first prize for visionary fiction from Independent Publisher and a first prize for nonfiction from USA Book News. In all, he has written seventeen books under his own name and has ghostwritten a half dozen more, including a memoir for a $2.5 billion in sales tech company CEO, a bestselling business management title for another tech company CEO, and two titles for consultants in the Six Sigma and Lean Production arena. For two years, he hosted a successful weekly Internet talk radio show, "The Truth about Life," which averaged 30,000 listener downloads per episode. A former advertising agency President and CEO, he is currently Editor & Publisher of The Oaklea Press. Click here to visit The Oaklea Press website, where you can learn how Stephen can help bring your book, or your book idea, to market. To learn more about Stephen Hawley Martin please visit his website: https://www.shmartin.com/ and https://www.oakleapress.com/ For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

"Most of us show up on life's playing field unprepared to play full out to win. We neither understand the game, the opponent, the rules, nor the equipment that helps us play and win. No wonder we walk as if on eggshells with other people. We are lonely. It doesn't have to be that way. We've learned much in recent years about how our mind works and there is no doubt that we can follow our heart's longing and live our lives with clarity, focus, ease and grace. And yes, we need to see with new eyes, and listen with new ears. And that is something that can be taught, should be taught, and is not yet routinely taught." ~ says Ingrid Martine Valeria interviews Ingrid about her book: The Un-Game: Four-Play to Business As Unusual and other thoughts in between. Ingrid Martine is the sole practitioner of Ingrid Martine Life Coaching, who now focuses exclusively on coaching people who don't quite recognize yet how extraordinarily capable they are to answer with YES the question "Couldn't life be easier, more enjoyable, and more meaningful for me?" Former CEO of Your Leaders' Edge Coaching, Consulting, and Training, a firm specializing in transforming resistance to change, Ingrid is also a certified executive, team, and life coach. Her former clients represent numerous industries: pharmaceutical, software development, public utility providers, insurance, ICF coaches, and the US Army. Ingrid is passionate about 'how people change', Ingrid has authored a book featuring an adult learning and coaching model in easy-to-digest story form for producing sustainable change—The Un-Game: Four-Play to Business As Unusual. While The UN-Game features a fictional business environment in which sustainable change is the goal, Ingrid is quick to say the book could just as easily be The UN-Game for Teachers, Parents, Lovers, Students . The timeless principles serve anyone willing to produce meaningful change in her or his life. In fact, both Ingrid and her clients thrive with the personal connection they create with 'unlearning' behaviors which block our clarity, focus, and ease in moving step by small, sweet step toward the life we long to live. With her straightforward, pragmatic, yet caring approach Ingrid encourages and supports shifts in thinking to achieve breakthroughs with the modalities she has mastered over her long career. Engaging in courageous conversations, conflict averting not avoiding, developing emotional and social intelligence skills, dealing with "difficult" people, understanding resistance to change, developing cross-cultural awareness and competence are some of them. Tangible results from those skills are a cross-cultural awareness program for students in Howard County, Maryland which Ingrid created and managed. As a volunteer leader she brought a symposium on deep change, now taught world-wide, to Texas and has trained others to lead it in three states. However, her greatest satisfaction is being with clients who are more and more comfortable in their own skin becoming "unself-conscious" as they claim and trust their voice of wisdom. To learn more about Ingrid Martine please visit her website: www.ingridmartine.com For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

Some say that the hardest thing to manage is people. Jan McDonald has found that the hardest thing to manage is ourselves. She says: If I can't lead myself, how can I lead others? The best leaders lead by example, modeling the behavior they desire to see in others. Jan can't think of better characteristics to model than the Fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22; Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control. Unfortunately, if we are not walking with the Spirit, we can be judgmental, selfish, impatient, controlling, petty, and snippy. A leadership law of magnetism reminds us that we don't attract who we want, we attract who we are. This should focus our attention on the characteristics we exhibit, so we can attract a higher quality of people into our lives. It's important that we ask ourselves, "Who do we attract into our lives and organizations?" and, more importantly, "What are we modeling for our children and the teams we lead?" If we choose, moment by moment, to walk with the Spirit, we can override our negative characteristics. Leadership is influence. We may not want or intend to lead, but every conversation or interaction we have with others is an attempt at influence. Think about it. As parents, we ask our children to make their beds, stand up straight and use manners—that's influence. We encourage them to choose friends that add value to their lives because there are certain "friends" that may negatively influence them. As leaders, we ask our team members to problem solve and take initiative – that's influence. We encourage them to collaborate with other hard-workers to achieve more. Regardless of role, all of us are influencing all the time. In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Jan McDonald, the author of the book Fruitful Leadership: Leading by the Fruit of The Spirit. Jan McDonald is certified by the premier John Maxwell Team as a business coach, leadership consultant and motivational speaker. Her highest objective is to empower and energize others to achieve their greatness that lives within. Sober for 30 years, there isn't a limiting belief that she can't help you overcome. Her transparency about her life and struggles will show you that, yes, you can transform your life, too! To learn more about Jan McDonald please visit her website: www.johncmaxwellgroup.com/janmcdonald For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.

Every relationship starts with self – so get out of your own way! "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom" – says: Lau Tzu. In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Maria Fudas, the author of "Connect with Yourself and Others." With new perspectives, her book will empower you to have more successful connections that will enable you to live your life in awareness, inspired with love and peace from the inside out. Bust through your fears and awaken to more joyful and meaningful relationships! Ask yourself, are you.... — attracting the wrong people in your life? — honoring yourself and your individuality without guilt or fear? — communicating effectively while respecting yourself and others? — consciously loving in a way that the other person feels free? — helping the other person become the best version of themselves? — allowing love, not fear, to lead your relationships? Maria's insights, wisdom and proven assertive methodologies will help you find answers and solutions for successful transformations. Live, Love, Dream!!! Maria Fudas is the youngest of seven children born into a long line of intuitive and spiritual healers. She is a Certified Assertiveness and Transformational Coach who teaches a different way of thinking and communicating. Using her techniques transforms one's life by effectively controlling one's thoughts, emotions and hence one's reality. This allows for more confidence, stronger connections and the ability to attract better relationships. To learn more about Maria Fudas please visit her website: https://www.mftransformation.com/ For Intro-free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast ** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.